Live Daily — Alt-rockers The Charlatans UK have set up a fall North American headlining tour as they continue to support last year's "You Cross My Path." The British group kicks off the outing Sept. 17 in San Diego, and will crisscross the continent before return... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — On Bank Holiday Monday, Xfm threw caution to the wind and decided to name the Top 100 Best British Songs Of All Time. Taking in votes from you, the listeners and Xfm DJs, they compiled what they think it the definitive list of the greatest songs from... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Oasis claimed the top three positions in a poll of the best British songs of all time today.Live Forever came in at number one, followed by Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger.A fourth Oasis song, Champagne Supernova, also made it into the top 10... more info

Rawkblog — Broken Social Scene has holed up for LP4 in Chicago’s Soma Studios with the Sea and Cake’s John McEntire, Kevin Drew blogs. Given the band’s sonic affinity for McEntire’s brand of breezy Chicago post-rock, he should be a great fit. BSS is als... more info

Rolling Stone — The Band: Blank Dogs The Buzz: Joy Division stuck in a tape deck: New York band crafts weird, warbly new wave songs, spaced-out and singular. Listen If: You’re not looking for the post-punk revival, but the post-punk reconstruction, where elements ... more info

Stereogum — Twilight Sad worked up a nice, icy wall of noise on their cover of Joy Division's "Twenty Four Hours." Returning from their U.S. tour with fellow gentle feedbackers Mogwai, the Scottish quartet has some post Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters mater... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Jeffrey Siegel said...For fans of jazz guitarist Marc Ribot, currently celebrating his 55th birthday with a series of shows in Manhattan.http://straightnochaserjazz.blogspot.comScholar said...Massive post featuring soul, funk, and hip hop covers, mas... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Growing up in a small town in the south of Sweden, discovering all the amazing postpunk/independent music exploding from every corner of the UK during the dawn of the 1980s, instigated the feeling of living in the right time – but in the wrong... more info

Stereogum — Punning on Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures while painting the old black-and-white landscape a pretty sunset pink, Alan Palomo, aka Austin's VEGA (not these folks) goes for pure joy (sorry) on his Well Known Pleasures EP. Before this, the Austin Ital... more info

The Vinyl Villain — The Jam – Batman Theme (1977): This is high school. A boys’ school. I hated it. But we had a ‘trendy’ art teacher who allowed us to have a record player and play music at lunchtime. One of the boys had an older brother who ... more info